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Antalya Old City & Düden Waterfalls: Boat Trip & Cable Car

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Duration8h–10h

GroupUp to 15

LanguagesEN · DE +1

PickupAt your hotel

You can see the waterfall from the boat — and from the cable car at 2,365 meters

You walk the Old City's marble streets and see Hadrian's Gate with a local guide; spend 30–45 minutes at the Upper Düden Waterfalls; take a 1-hour boat trip from Antalya Marina to view the Lower Düden Waterfalls from the sea; visit a silver shop in the bazaar; and eat lunch at a traditional restaurant. If you choose the cable car package, you ride the Olympos aerial tram to 2,365 meters and visit Dinopark near Kemer. Hotel pickup both ways is included.

8h–10h

Step-by-step itinerary

Visit Hadrian’s Gate
Stroll through Antalya Bazaar
Visit silver shop
Explore Upper Düden Waterfalls
View Lower Düden Waterfalls panorama
Enjoy 1-hour boat trip from Old Town Marina

The Experience

The first surprise is how close the waterfalls are to the city. You leave the Old Town's narrow marble streets and within an hour you're standing at the edge of the Upper Düden Waterfalls, where the water just drops straight off a cliff into a gorge below. There's 30 to 45 minutes to walk around, take photos, feel the spray if you get close enough. Your guide points out the rock formations and tells you about how the water carved all this over centuries, which sounds like standard tour talk until you're actually standing there and it's louder and more real than you expected.

Then comes the boat trip — a full hour on the water from Antalya Marina, and this is where the tour gets its shape. You motor out along the coast and the Lower Düden Waterfalls appear, except now you're watching them from the sea instead of from land, which changes everything. The water cascades straight into the Mediterranean. Your guide has time to explain the geology, the local history, point out landmarks along the shore. It's not rushed. The boat holds a small group, so there's room to move around, and the captain knows the best angle to hold steady so everyone gets a clear view.

If you pick the Olympos Cable Car option, the day extends inland toward Kemer. The cable car climbs from sea level to 2,365 meters on Mount Olympos — it's an Austrian-built aerial tram that's been running since 2006, and the ride takes you up through the forest canopy. On the way, you stop at Dinopark for lunch at a traditional local restaurant (drinks are separate). The park sits on 30,000 square meters of wooded terrain near Goynuk village, about 7 kilometers from Kemer, and it's designed so you're eating surrounded by trees and fresh air rather than in a concrete dining room. After lunch, you ride the cable car up. The view from the top reaches across the coast and the mountains behind it. Without this option, you skip the cable car and Dinopark, and the day stays focused on the city, the waterfalls, and the boat.

The tour includes a 30-minute stop at a silver shop in the Old Bazaar — the narrow-alley marketplace where vendors sell handcrafted jewelry, leather goods, Ottoman pieces. It's built into the itinerary, not a hard sell, and you have time to browse or just walk through. Before that, you walk through Kaleiçi, the Old City itself, with Hadrian's Gate — three double arches of white marble erected in 130 AD — as one of the main stops. Your guide handles the history and the local context. Hotel pickup and drop-off are included both ways, so you don't arrange transport yourself. The whole day runs with travel time built in, so the duration accounts for moving between sites, not just time at each one.

What’s included

Hotel pickup and drop-off both ways.
guided tour of Old City Kaleiçi and Hadrian's Gate.
30–45 minutes at Upper Düden Waterfalls.
1-hour sightseeing boat trip from Antalya Marina to view Lower Düden Waterfalls.
30 minutes at Lower Düden Waterfalls panorama point.
30-minute silver shop visit in the Old Bazaar.
lunch at a traditional local restaurant (drinks not included).
Olympos Cable Car ride to 2,365 meters and Dinopark visit (if cable car package selected).
local guide throughout.

Good to know

Easy physical levelStroller friendlyNot for back problemsInfants must sit on laps

Operated by Book From Locals

Is this one for you?Choose this tour if you want to see Antalya's main sights — the Old City, both waterfalls, and the coastline — in one day without arranging your own transport or timing the boat departure; the fixed itinerary and included pickup handle all of that for you.